Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others

Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by amasad on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:25PM (#18276995)

We have no plans and I see no reason to make you have to sign up. (Although to cut down on abuse some things aren't available for anonymous users like long-term web hosting).

You can also go to repl.it/languages and see all the langauges.

As for our plans to become an IDE: we've given ourselves the hard task of being a REPL-first IDE and to always load in under 2 seconds. More here: https://repl.it/blog/platform

For the landing page: we've found that most people coming through there go through the signup/login flow anyways so we've emphasized that. You can still get to the languages in the footer.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by solarkraft on Monday October 22, 2018 @05:01PM (#18278463)

> we've found that most people coming through there go through the signup/login flow anyways

This baffles me. Why? Don't people just want to mash something into a REPL quickly (step in between: write the first one or two letters of the language you want to use and press enter)? That's certainly how I use it ...

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by amasad on Monday October 22, 2018 @06:02PM (#18278952)

Oh most people will google "repl.it ruby" and get to that directly.

We also just discussed this and we're adding a language selector on the homepage.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by _sword on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:30PM (#18277037)

Congrats on the fundraising and the momentum Amjad!

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by amasad on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:41PM (#18277136)

Thank you!

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